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Wow I love the design of this site. Really hit some right notes for me. If you’re going to talk about reviving the ”old web” on hn, please follow through and re

by savolai 11mo ago

Wow I love the design of this site. Really hit some right notes for me. If you’re going to talk about reviving the ”old web” on hn, please follow through and reach for the originality level of this. So many thoughtful details.

bjackman 11mo ago
I also admired this and for a moment thought "I should steal this person's style". Then I quickly realised I am not even close to capable of pulling a design like that off, on so many dimensions. I guess that's why this person is a professional designer and I'm a person who's never worked on a product with a UI in his career!
- ohhellnawman 11mo ago
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austinjp 11mo ago
Yep, it's lovely. I'd recommend people check out her art too: https://www.nicchan.me/art/ https://www.nicchan.me/art/
egorfine 11mo ago
It is truly an excellent design. Thus I am so grateful for the "Reader mode" in Safari that allowed me to actually read the article.
- blenderob 11mo ago
  No kidding! Half way down I began to get a headache. Took me a moment to understand that it was the difficult-to-read font that was inducing headache. Switched to "Reader mode" and instant relief! Excellent design. But not for me. Thank you Reader mode!
  - NiloCK 11mo ago
    Note that the settings in lower-right allows for an eye-friendlier font.
    - blenderob 11mo ago
      Thank you! 1000 times better after selecting antialiased font.
- bichiliad 11mo ago
  I think they updated the site to mention this, but the gear in the lower-right corner lets you read in a non-pixelated font.
  - account42 11mo ago
    Having an option that you need to tick to make the site usable is still an interesting design choice.
fanf2 11mo ago
It has broken scrolling, very irritating. Scroll to top doesn’t work at all and when I fiddle with the fake windows regular scrolling can’t decide if the fake window or the whole page should scroll.
stavros 11mo ago
I hated it. It looks really pretty, but was terrible for reading. Half my phone screen was taken up by icons, and there was no scrollbar so I had no idea how long the article was. I really needed reader mode for it.
- internet2000 11mo ago
  In the industry, we call this the "fuck off article design" (I gave up reading midway through the post.)
- esseph 11mo ago
  Click the Maximize Window button on the top right.
  - stavros 11mo ago
    Wow, thanks for the tip. I didn't expect to need a manual to read a blog post.
    - ubermonkey 11mo ago
      No manual required. You just have to recognize very common icons.
      - stavros 11mo ago
        That's more than I've needed on any other post.
        ubermonkey 10mo ago
        Sorry for requiring thought!
        stavros 10mo ago
        "Sorry for breaking the first rule of good design", you mean?
UomoNeroNero 11mo ago
I love it too!!
ubermonkey 11mo ago
Real talk, it's the first site I'm going to forward to people because of its design and implementation in at least 15 years. This is remarkable work.
kelvinjps10 11mo ago
I didn't like the default font but good thing they have a way to change it

by savolai 11mo ago

bjackman 11mo ago

I also admired this and for a moment thought "I should steal this person's style". Then I quickly realised I am not even close to capable of pulling a design like that off, on so many dimensions. I guess that's why this person is a professional designer and I'm a person who's never worked on a product with a UI in his career!

ohhellnawman 11mo ago
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austinjp 11mo ago

Yep, it's lovely. I'd recommend people check out her art too: https://www.nicchan.me/art/ https://www.nicchan.me/art/

egorfine 11mo ago

It is truly an excellent design. Thus I am so grateful for the "Reader mode" in Safari that allowed me to actually read the article.

blenderob 11mo ago
No kidding! Half way down I began to get a headache. Took me a moment to understand that it was the difficult-to-read font that was inducing headache. Switched to "Reader mode" and instant relief! Excellent design. But not for me. Thank you Reader mode!
- NiloCK 11mo ago
  Note that the settings in lower-right allows for an eye-friendlier font.
  - blenderob 11mo ago
    Thank you! 1000 times better after selecting antialiased font.
bichiliad 11mo ago
I think they updated the site to mention this, but the gear in the lower-right corner lets you read in a non-pixelated font.
- account42 11mo ago
  Having an option that you need to tick to make the site usable is still an interesting design choice.

fanf2 11mo ago

It has broken scrolling, very irritating. Scroll to top doesn’t work at all and when I fiddle with the fake windows regular scrolling can’t decide if the fake window or the whole page should scroll.

stavros 11mo ago

I hated it. It looks really pretty, but was terrible for reading. Half my phone screen was taken up by icons, and there was no scrollbar so I had no idea how long the article was. I really needed reader mode for it.

internet2000 11mo ago
In the industry, we call this the "fuck off article design" (I gave up reading midway through the post.)
esseph 11mo ago
Click the Maximize Window button on the top right.
- stavros 11mo ago
  Wow, thanks for the tip. I didn't expect to need a manual to read a blog post.
  - ubermonkey 11mo ago
    No manual required. You just have to recognize very common icons.
    - stavros 11mo ago
      That's more than I've needed on any other post.
      - ubermonkey 10mo ago
        Sorry for requiring thought!
        stavros 10mo ago
        "Sorry for breaking the first rule of good design", you mean?

UomoNeroNero 11mo ago

I love it too!!

ubermonkey 11mo ago

Real talk, it's the first site I'm going to forward to people because of its design and implementation in at least 15 years. This is remarkable work.

kelvinjps10 11mo ago

I didn't like the default font but good thing they have a way to change it